POLITECNICO DI MILANO MANTOVARCHITETTURA 2022
MARCH 2022
On the 24th May Níall will be a guest lecturer at MantovArchitettura festival 2022 at the Palazzo Ducale, Atrio degli Arcieri, Mantova. MANTOVARCHITETTURA is a cultural project conceived and organized by the Territorial Pole of Mantua of the Politecnico di Milano, as part of the activities of the UNESCO Chair in Planning and Architectural Protection in World Heritage Cities. Launched by the series of international conferences promoted in this context since 2012, the initiative offers a rich program of exhibitions, workshops, conferences and meetings with the protagonists of international architectural culture, which every year, in the month of May, transform Mantua into a Capital of architecture
KEY NOTE LECTURE AT CONFERENCE ON MODERN SACRED ARCHITECTURE
OCTOBER 2014
Niall McLaughlin has given a keynote lecture on the theme of ‘Sacred Spaces’ as part of a conference on Modern Sacred Architecture in Ireland and Germany, hosted at Newman House in Dublin. The conference was hosted as a collaboration between University College Dublin, Goethe-Institut Ireland and the National College of Art and Design. The other key note lecturers were Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Professor of Art History at UCD and Amandus Sattler, principal of the award-wining Munich practice, Allmann Sattler Wappner.
The three day event explored themes of abstraction and innovation, together with conservation and re-use in the design of churches, mosques and synagogues from 1920s to the present day. The lectures and panel discussions focussed on sacred architecture of the period within Ireland and Germany. Niall spoke on themes surrounding the practice’s ecclesiastical work, including the Bishop Edward King Chapel and the Carmelite chapels in London and Dublin.